Amazing Fake News Even From CNN

There's a report on Powerline that contains a great example of amazing fake news from CNN.  Chistiane Amanpour had a broadcast with the foreign minister of Hungary in which she took the Hungarian government to task for "destroying" democracy in Hungary as a result of legislation passed in parliament that gave the Prime Minister some emergeny powers to act by decree.  Amanpour was told by the foreign minister that Hungary's law was identical to that passed by four other EU member countries and that four other EU members had given their head of state even more power. He mentioned France as an example of that.  Amanpour shot back that in France, the legislature could always overturn the decrees of the president but that in Hungary that could not happen because the legislature has been shut down indefinitely.  The Foreign Minister looked shocked when she said that.  He then told Amanpour that the Hungarian parliament was not shut.  In fact, he said that he had spoken in Parliament five times in the past week and that the schedule of meeting had not been altered at all.  He said reports that the parliament had been shut down were fake news.  Amanpour's response was, "That's news to us."

Think about that.  This is not some minor or complicated point.  The question is whether or not the Parliament in Hungary is shut indefinitely.  CNN said that it was, and that was totally false.  Imagine CNN announcing that the Senate in the USA had adjourned until August when, in fact, the Senate was still in session and had no plans to adjourn.  Hungary may be a small country, but even CNN ought to have the resources to be able to find out if the parliament there had adjourned indefinitely.

CNN is Fake News.  The whole interview can be seen on the link to Powerline in the first line above.  It's worth watching just for the fun of it.